On the reddit or Hacker News thread (congratulations on getting approval from Symantec - v exciting) there was a guy from Netflix who said he was using D there, I think for data science.

If he reads this, or someone has time to contact him, would be great to have their approval to add them to organisations using D as Netflix seems to be well thought of technically.  It was a great idea also to put this on the front page, because as Andrei said people use heuristics to avoid having to look into a new language and the fact large enterprises do use D makes one common selling objection go away.


Laeeth

On 4/9/2017 7:38 AM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> On the reddit or Hacker News thread (congratulations on getting approval from
> Symantec - v exciting) there was a guy from Netflix who said he was using D
> there, I think for data science.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14064012


> If he reads this, or someone has time to contact him, would be great to have
> their approval to add them to organisations using D as Netflix seems to be well
> thought of technically.  It was a great idea also to put this on the front page,
> because as Andrei said people use heuristics to avoid having to look into a new
> language and the fact large enterprises do use D makes one common selling
> objection go away.

On Sunday, 9 April 2017 at 14:38:43 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> On the reddit or Hacker News thread (congratulations on getting approval from Symantec - v exciting) there was a guy from Netflix who said he was using D there, I think for data science.
>
> If he reads this, or someone has time to contact him, would be great to have their approval to add them to organisations using D as Netflix seems to be well thought of technically.  It was a great idea also to put this on the front page, because as Andrei said people use heuristics to avoid having to look into a new language and the fact large enterprises do use D makes one common selling objection go away.
>
>
> Laeeth

He said he was using it at Netflix for machine learning, actually. And he commented in reply this comment of mine (in that same HN thread about DMD now being fully open source):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14063413

in which I linked to this earlier Ask HN by me:

Ask HN: What are you using D (language) for?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12193828

There were some interesting replies about how people were using D in that thread.

On Tuesday, 11 April 2017 at 20:41:47 UTC, Vasudev Ram wrote:
>> On the reddit or Hacker News thread (congratulations on getting approval from Symantec - v exciting) there was a guy from Netflix who said he was using D there, I think for data science.

That person may be referring to VectorFlow, a library focused on single-machine, shallow neural networks:

https://medium.com/@NetflixTechBlog/introducing-vectorflow-fe10d7f126b8

Looks very interesting. No dependencies. I actually ran into issues trying to work with large, sparse feature matrices in Python using some of the standard tools (scipy, sklearn) and some newer tools (numba and dask) and when looking up different approaches, found VectorFlow. Thought you guys may want to know.

The fact that they didn't use any external library (in part because they want to keep it minimalistic and hackable) was interesting to me. There are different sides to that choice.

On 1/24/18 2:16 PM, Guilherme Pereira de Freitas wrote:
> On Tuesday, 11 April 2017 at 20:41:47 UTC, Vasudev Ram wrote:
>>> On the reddit or Hacker News thread (congratulations on getting approval from Symantec - v exciting) there was a guy from Netflix who said he was using D there, I think for data science.
> 
> That person may be referring to VectorFlow, a library focused on single-machine, shallow neural networks:
> 
> https://medium.com/@NetflixTechBlog/introducing-vectorflow-fe10d7f126b8

Yep. You replied to an almost-year-old thread. The author since has posted about it here: https://forum.dlang.org/post/lcejzbzgfakjcravltjq@forum.dlang.org

-Steve